Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 Last update: 12:18 p.m.
Dube denied creating fake Facebook page to lure Nichole Cable in police interview
BANGOR | The Orono man accused of luring a 15-year-old girl to her death using a fake Facebook page repeatedly denied to police that …
Old, young share Can-Am Crown trails this weekend
2 hours agoFORT KENT | When Lara Renner was 5 years old she found a stuffed husky dog toy in her family’s basement. She hooked it …
Decreased funds for research and development squeezes Maine universities
University spending on research and development rose by less than half a percent nationally in fiscal year 2013, according to data released earlier this month …
Windham man allegedly sold cyanide to British man for $250 per gram
1 hour agoA Windham man faces life in prison if convicted of selling potassium …
REGION:
ROOTED IN ME (blog)
A native Californian learns about Maine winter the hard way
Over the last two years I’ve learned I’m “from away.” I was born in the …
7-month sentence for child sex assaults spurs midcoast movement
APPLETON | A seven-month jail sentence imposed this week for a man convicted of …
Eddington leaders support state’s I-395, Route 9 connector road
When selectmen got to the agenda item Tuesday about a resolve opposing …
NOTES FROM A CORNER OF THE COUNTRY (blog)
Income gap grows as unions decline
To judge from the news, you might think that organized labor was alive and well. …
- What you need to know about the Can-Am Crown
- Egg-throwing incident knocks Seattle woman unconscious
- House avoid Homeland Security shutdown with 1-week funding extension
- Oregon sheriff investigates case of ‘stolen’ log cabin
- Pentagon pulls order relocating military judges to Guantanamo
- Justice Department ramps up scrutiny of candidates, PACs
Opinion
EDITORIALS
Maine has made itself a vehicle registration haven
Police and municipal officials in Connecticut are miffed that residents who owe property taxes are registering their cars in Maine to escape their debts. In …
Sports
VIDEO
Last-second basket lifts Cape Elizabeth past Medomak Valley for Class B boys crown
PORTLAND | Ethan Murphy’s fast-break layup as time expired lifted Cape Elizabeth past Medomak Valley of Waldoboro 44-42 at the Cross Insurance Arena on …
Health
CATCHING HEALTH (blog)
A Hard-Learned Lesson about Shingles
It was the beginning of a Labor Day weekend when Al felt a strange sensation on his right buttock, just underneath his back pocket where …
Business
AG Mills orders wind power opposition group to replace leaders or disband
PORTLAND | The statewide wind power opposition group Friends of Maine Mountains will have to shut down if it can’t restructure its five-member board …
Outdoors
VIDEO
GoPro captures musher’s perspective during sled dog run in Fort Kent
The 2015 Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races is happening in northern Maine this weekend. Mushers from around the United States …
Food
MAINE COURSE (blog)
Find a Piece of Maine at b.good in Boston
Slipping and sliding, my kids and I walked in the bitter cold last Thursday from our Boston hotel to b.good, a burger joint with a …
Events
CULTURE SHOCK (blog)
Lady Antebellum to return to Bangor Waterfront, with guest Hunter Hayes
Lady Antebellum, multi-platinum country trio, will play its third concert at the Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion this summer, when they return to Bangor on Thursday, June …
- CULTURE SHOCK (blog): 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Feb. 27-March 1: Goodbye, February, you miserable so-n-so
- BACKSTAGE (blog): Penobscot Theatre Company presents “End Days”: a Maine Premiere
- GEORGE'S OUTDOOR NEWS (blog): Join us March 6,7 for Bob Duschesne’s Birding Adventure with Maine Huts and Trails
